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Ubuntu For Tablets Announced
hypnosec writes "Keeping its promise from yesterday Ubuntu has announced an operating system for tablets dubbed 'Ubuntu for Tablets' that it says will work on tablets of any size. Advertised to work on both entry level tablets as well as high-end tablets with enterprise specifications, the operating system offers multitasking, safer sharing, instant launch of applications through the menu bar on the left, effortless switching between applications among other features." The tablet version of the OS will also be presented at Mobile World Congress later this month. Also featured at SlashCloud.
Canonical is no longer a linux company, it's a company that uses linux.
Does anyone actually care ? If the Tablet won't run either iOS or Android then no one will ever buy it. It's an dead investment - no matter if Linux or not.
well, once upon a time, this arrogant guy, RMS, did a lot of work that didn't pay off..so another guy LT, created a nice OS called linux. Dad, how do you know RMS is arrogant ? look at it is gnu/linux, not linux: hundreds of words where a single paragraph, well written, would have done the job nicely (and, rms , despite being the uber uber programmer, doesn't seem to realize that people are lazy and don't like to type, and that / characters are hard to index, and therefore no one ever was gonna type gnu/linux when the they could type linux, not to mention, people don't like products that are hard to pronounce But dad, why doesn't anyone use linux? Son, that is the fascinating thing: you see, everyone thought there was a lot of money in linux, so all the companies rushed out not very good non compatible versions. meanwhile, the hackers, who don't understand basic human psychology (choice is not good) made hundreds of non compatible forks; in the end, no one system had enough critical mass: not everyone can be a leader; it takes a lot of followers to make something big and complex.